Submission Local Plan: Strategy and Sites - Main Modifications

The Proposed Submission Local Plan: strategy and sites sets out the vision for Guildford borough and the Council’s approach to development up to 2034. It plays important role in shaping Guildford’s future – how our towns and villages develop, protecting and enhancing our natural environment, developing our local economy, improving leisure and visitor facilities and supporting more sustainable forms of travel.

The Council consulted on the Proposed Submission Local Plan: strategy and sites in June and July 2016. A number of changes were then made to the 2016 plan as a result of the consultation and further work. The Council consulted upon those changes in June and July 2017. The 2017 plan was subject to minor changes and submitted to the Secretary of State in December 2017 for independent examination.

A series of public hearing sessions on the Submission Local Plan were held from 5 June 2018 to 5 July 2018. The interim conclusion by the independent Inspector is that the plan is 'sound' subject to main modifications.

The Council has produced a set of main modifications to the plan, which were subject to a six-week period of public consultation. The consultation ran from 12 noon on 11 September 2018 to 12 noon on 23 October 2018.

The consultation was open to anyone and was limited to the proposed main modifications only. Any duly made representations received during the consultation period have been provided to the Inspector who will consider whether these modifications should be made in order to make the plan sound.

All proposed main modifications are listed with their unique reference number in the Schedule of Proposed Main Modifications. You can find PDF and Online versions of the schedule below under "Consultation documents". The online version of the schedule includes comment boxes so you can submit comments online.

Main modifications are shown in red. New text is underlined (new text looks like this), and deleted text is struck through (deleted text looks like this). Main modifications to maps are shown within yellow boxes and inset maps.

We have provided PDF and online versions of the plan in order to show how the main modifications look when inserted into the plan. The online version of the plan does not include comment boxes because comments should be made against the Schedule of Proposed Main Modifications.

The main modifications are intended to address issues of legal compliance and/or soundness and representations should focus on the effect of the modification(s) on the Plan’s soundness or legal compliance. For more information about what this means, please read this guidance (link opens in a new window).

As well as the main modifications, minor modifications have also been made to the plan. These changes are not related to the soundness of the plan, are not subject to consultation and have not been shown as tracked changes in the schedule and the plan. You can view the Schedule of Minor Modifications for information purposes.

Representations

You can view all the responses through the "Links" section at the bottom of this webpage.

PDFs of all the duly made responses are provided below under "Summary of results".